Oriental Research Institute

The Oriental Research Institute (ORI) at Mysore, India is a research institute which collects, exhibits, edits and publishes rare manuscripts in Sanskrit and Kannada, with a few works in English, Tamil, and Telugu. Formerly it was known as the Oriental Library. The Oriental Library was started in 1891 on the orders of His Highness Chamarajendra Wadiyar X, the then Maharaja of Mysore Kingdom. It is located at the northern end of the Krishnaraja Boulevard Road (adjacently opposite to the Crawford Hall wherein the University of Mysore is located), in the architecturally attractive Jubilee Hall built in 1887 to commemorate the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria`s accession to the British throne. It was a part of the Department of Education until 1916, in which year it became part of the newly established University of Mysore. The Oriental Library was renamed as the Oriental Research Institute in 1943.